Overview
With close to 20 years’ professional trade marks experience in both the EU and Australia, Roseanne is the leader of our Trade Marks team in Australia.
She has many long-standing clients who entrust her with their brand protection strategies in Australia and overseas. Managing considerable local and international trade mark portfolios, she has extensive experience in contentious and non-contentious trade mark matters and has represented many brand owners in trade mark opposition and removal proceedings in both Australia and New Zealand.
Roseanne provides strategic advice on selection, clearance, filing, prosecution and enforcement of trade marks in a diverse range of industries including software and technology, fashion, FMCG and natural resources.
Prior to moving to Australia in 2007, Roseanne practiced as an Irish and European Community Trade Mark Attorney before the Irish Patents Office and European Union Intellectual Property Office. This experience gives her a unique insight in advising clients on their global brand strategies.
Roseanne is an active member of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New South Wales (IPSANZ) and currently sits on the New South Wales Committee. Given her Irish roots, she also sits on the board of The Lansdowne Club, the premier Irish business networking club for Australian based Irish professionals and businesses.